I am trying to figure out the reason why her telling me that she was pregnant came as a surprise. Not an overwhelming or incapacitating one; but, certainly, unexpected news. News that was anomalous against the moire pattern of the day, the matrix of inter-connections and associations that makes up one's conscious world. There can be no question but that it h...
PROLOGUE.... "They say that in every generation there is a child born unto the world with the ability to foresee the future. Not "THE FUTURE" but a possibility of one that might happen if the path of man stays on course. They call it, THE SIGHT. "Destiny is part of that, we are all given a chance to prove ourselves, to lay in a course and let the wind guid...
Sex Prep 101 Readers often ask me why I haven't written in a while. The truth is, I haven't felt passionate about adding anything to what I've already written; nothing that would be useful to the good people on this site. I do now, though. And I'm excited about it, because this is by request. Yes, I've been asked to cover a topic. If you haven't had sex...
The year is 2042, Virtual reality, which first started getting really popular in the mid 2010s, has grown exponentially, almost every major game comes out in VR these days, and the technology has advanced greatly, you no longer have to worry about kicking your desk.. or breaking a lamp, or anything of the sort, now you can simply lay in a pod and be directly...
Love is silly. This is not to say that love is laughable, or funny; it's neither. Love is not trivial. It is sublime, life-altering. Love changes. But love, especially new love, makes us act silly, makes us think differently. We do things out of character for us, we say things we normally wouldn't say and almost immediately the changes begin. The playboy...
When I was younger, the difference between an "optimist" and a "pessimist" was explained to me with an analogy: "An optimist will say a glass is half-full, but a pessimist will say that it's half-empty." Afterwards I tried to determine which of my friends were optimists and which were pessimists by asking them which they thought the glass was - most of them...
Wanting and needing. Two very different words, two very different meanings. All we need in this life is food and water and shelter. What we would like probably includes money and love and happiness and a huge flat screen television. I lived without the flat screen television and the happiness and the love. Then you came into my life. And who needs a fl...
When I entered hospice I was admitting that my money had failed to save my life. I'd visited doctors all over the world but I was still here, waiting for my time to come. Barely a year after contracting a disease doctors didn't even have a name for and my time was running out. But if nothing else, dying slowly gives you ample time for reflection. My forty y...
Chapter 4: Lawrence It was a cloudy autumn afternoon when they set out. Lawrence was still brooding after his capture by the slavers. How had they managed to bring him down? He knew they had suppressed his Shaping somehow, but how? And why didn't it work on the boy? It was a close call, he knew that much. He didn't want to, but now he had to study the s...
Tales of the eKids: E-man Loves Emmy © 2004 by Andrew Wiggin Disclaimer: Swear to God, I never heard of "The Day after Tomorrow" until last week. I planned this plot line about six months ago. My loyal readers know that I would never stoop to steal a plot from a "B" movie. I steal my plots from much classier sources; in this case: "A Brain for All Seasons...